Grace Han is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History (Film and Media Studies track) at Stanford University, where she thinks about digital animation aesthetics under the supervision of Shane Denson. Her dissertation, “Encounters with the Generative Archive,” examines the aesthetics and ethics of using CG and AI to recover lost histories in contemporary art. She also co-coordinates Digital Aesthetics: A Stanford Humanities Research Workshop, is a Tomatometer-approved film critic, and serves as the Secretary for GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

Prior to her studies at Stanford, Grace completed her BA with Honors at UNC-Chapel Hill (2018) and a MA with Distinction at The Courtauld Institute of Art (2020), and received the Society for Animation Studies’ Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media (2019). She has also previously served as a co-admin for Asian Movie Pulse (2020-2022) and Film/TV Reviews Editor for Fantasy/Animation (2021-2023). She is also a fond alumnus of the Sundance Press Inclusion Initiative (2024, 2022), Toronto Media Inclusion Initiative (2024, 2022), Telluride Student Symposium (2021), GoCritic! at Animafest Zagreb (2019), and Campus Movie Fest at Cannes (2019).

In academia, she has previously presented her research on AI aesthetics at research universities and organizations across the U.S., U.K., and Hong Kong. In arts journalism, she prefers to cover emerging Asian diaspora, queer, and animation-related talent. She has previously been consulted on AAPI media and AI art for BBC Culture, Mubi Notebook, and Amazon Prime Video, and contributed to limited-edition DVD collections on Asian cinema like Imprint Asia. She has also written on transnational Korean animation for In Media Res, Association for Chinese Animation Studies, and Fantasy/Animation. Other academic and press bylines include The Alan Turing Institute: AI & Arts, xCoAx, Hyperallergic, Koreanscreen.com, and Cineuropa. In her free time, she likes to read comics and garden (that is, touch grass).

If you have any press requests, academic inquiries, or would like to talk about animation in general, feel free to reach her through her email (ghahahan@stanford.edu). CV is also available upon request.